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Subway founder: If I had tried to start Subway today, it would not exist

I wonder what types of popular, convenient, and productive job-providing private businesses we’re undoubtedly now missing out on because of the poor regulatory and business climate of the Obama economy?

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I’ve kicked around the fantasy that I’d ditch horrible, soul-crushing office work to start my own restaurant franchising business(es). But I dare not in Obamaland. So my choices are to remain miserable in soul-crushing office work or not eat.

Before my culinary arts hopes blew up in my face I briefly talked with my then-girlfriend about starting one. Wouldn’t dare now, not even in a city where restaurants are a big thing – the !@#%#$ idiots raised the tax on said places to 10%!!! Go to a place where you tip the server 15% and I’ll let you figure how much more your meal costs now.

There’s apparently a whole three Sonic Drive-Ins in Seattle. And by Seattle, I mean Tacoma. There are apparently five Dick’s Drive-Ins in Seattle, clustered around northern downtown and the university district. And there’s about a 20-mile gap between the southernmost Dick’s and the northernmost Sonic. That means there are no Sonic’s near Microsoft or any Boeing plant. There is money to be made! Or could be. Maybe someday. THANKS OBAMA.

It’s not just businesses that never start. Lots of businesses have gone away over the last couple of decades, in part because of the increasingly bad climate. I shut down a business that was grossing about a million a year because it wasn’t worth the trouble (among other reasons). I wouldn’t even think about trying to start the same business up today. It wouldn’t be possible. The entire industry I was in has shrunk.

Subway founder: If I had tried to start Subway today, it would not exist

And that is what so many already successful big businesses and their leadership support heavy regulation of their industries and higher taxes on small businesses. They can afford it and new small business competitors cannot. They use government to kill potential future competition.

That’s how things work in socialist Europe. How many new successful big companies have been created in Europe in the past 40 years? Not many. Almost all of the names that were there 40 years ago are still there and there are very few new ones.

Compare and contrast with the US. A huge number of new big companies have been created in 40 years. The advertising landscape is filled with company names that didn’t exist 40 years ago. And many big company names that were around 40 years ago are gone.

Notice Subway man agrees minimum wage earners ‘deserve’ to earn more.
If they did, they ought to be going somewhere else to learn skills so that they can make more $$.
This crap about people ‘deserving’ more is a result of how spoiled people in our culture have become.
I’m sorry, but I’ve worked fast food & it isn’t hard. The only thing hard about it is being on your feet all day & running back & forth like a chicken with its head cut off.
But deserving of higher wages? For making sammiches? NO.

Go to fracking screwl people & learn something that makes you more valuable.
Speaking of starting businesses. Wanted to start a small portrait biz here wehre I live bcs the one that was here retired.
But I see getting a brick & mortar in town would require a crippling amount of insurance & I say frack it. Just going to find another way to work under the table.

And that is what so many already successful big businesses and their leadership support heavy regulation of their industries and higher taxes on small businesses. They can afford it and new small business competitors cannot. They use government to kill potential future competition.

IIRC, there’s a Dick’s in Edmonds, at 220th and 99. First new one in like 40 years. The others are all north of downtown – Wallingford, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Crown Hill, and Lake City (I always forget that one).